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HillaryCare Blooms

Updated June 2, 2007 12:01 a.m. ET

The HillaryCare experiment ended badly in 1994, but Democrats are back in the universal health-care laboratory. All the party's major Presidential candidates have or will introduce plans, and last week Hillary Clinton presented the first part of hers. The former First Lady joked that she's "tangled with this issue before" and has "the scars to show for it." But the lesson she seems to have learned is political, not substantive -- that is, make any plans for government control gauzy and incremental, not grandiose.